"Don't count BlackBerry out," Research In Motion Ltd. CEO Thorsten Heins wrote in a column for The Globe and Mail on Tuesday.

After announcing disastrous financial results and 5,000 layoffs last week, the new CEO is going on the offensive against the impression that the Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone maker is in a "death spiral" and will be unable to launch its repeatedly delayed BlackBerry 10 software platform, writes technology reporter Iain Marlow.

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